Hetland v. Bilstad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster District Court. — Hon. "W. D. Evans, Judge. Action on a note for $1,500 executed to plaintiff by defendant April 23, 1904, payable December 1, 1905, with interest at the rate of seven percent per annum.
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Appeal from Webster District Court. — Hon. "W. D. Evans, Judge. Action on a note for $1,500 executed to plaintiff by defendant April 23, 1904, payable December 1, 1905, with interest at the rate of seven percent per annum. The defendant admitted the execution of the note, but alleged by way of counterclaim that it was given in part payment of 1,280 acres of land in Norman County, Minn., and that defendant was induced by fraud to purchase the same to his damage in the sum of $19,200. There was a trial by jury, which resulted in a judgment in favor of defendant. The plaintiff appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, C. J.
— In April, 1904, the defendant purchased of plaintiff two sections of land in Norman County, Minn., at the price of $30 per acre; the first payment being a stock of hardware at Callender, Iowa, subsequently invoiced at $4,000. The issues raised by the pleadings and submitted to the jury were whether. defendant was induced to make such purchase by the intentional misrepresentation on the part of plaintiff that said land was'"first class and well adapted for farm purposes,, and the raising of standard small grain such as is produced in that vicinity, that it was not subject to overflow either…
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